The Freer House at Wayne State University is pleased to co-sponsor an event at the Detroit Film Theatre in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Focus on Japan Through Art and Film, featuring the film, Edo Avant Garde. This inspiring film is about the enduring impact of Japanese art on the world. It will be shown on Thursday, October 19th at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available at the door or in advance at https://dia.org/events/edo-avant-garde. 

This special showing of the extraordinarily beautiful documentary will include an appearance by filmmaker and screenwriter, Linda Hoaglund of New York. The film highlights Japan's Edo period (1603-1868) and features art by masterful and inventive Japanese artists such as Sotatsu, Korin, and Okyo, acquired by Detroit's Charles Lang Freer and other collectors and museums in Japan and America, that were pre-cursors of 'modernism' and strongly influenced Western artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Stunningly filmed by Japanese cinematographer, Kasamatsu Horimichi, the film explores the delicate beauty and wide variety of folding screens and scroll paintings and sheds new light on the pioneering aesthetic achievements of Edo period Japanese art.

Filmmaker Linda Hoaglund will be interviewed after the screening by DFT curator Elliot Wilhelm and Katherine Kasdorf, Associate Curator of the Arts of Asia and the Islamic World, DIA. Directed by Linda Hoaglund, 2019. 

To view the trailer for the film, visit https://files.constantcontact.com/ab1df0c6201/b41fcc85-47a1-4ef1-bbaf-89c72c4a6e92.jpg?rdr=true